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“Giving Nature a Home” festival

September 7, 2014 by Julian

This weekend has been the RSPB‘s Giving Nature a Home Festival in the Mersey Valley.  As part of this, SACV volunteers were out in Chorlton Water Park yesterday to undertake a practical conservation task and help those attending the festival see the kind of useful work they can get involved in!  The work was to help manage the reed beds in the bay of the lake by cutting back some of the regenerating willow and also to carry out repairs to the chestnut paling which helps to provide the reed beds with some protection from passing dogs.

RSPB setting up tents
RSPB setting up tents
Gathering thinnings
Gathering thinnings
Water's edge
Water’s edge
Fence repairs
Fence repairs
Volunteer at work
Volunteer at work
Caterpillar
Caterpillar
Before work
Before work
SACV blackboard
SACV blackboard
Cuttings
Cuttings
After work
After work
Frog
Frog
Beetles
Beetles

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